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QLD - Queensland Coastal Wetlands (Mangroves, saltpans, samphire) (DEEDI)

Posted on 08 July 2010

1:100,000 coastal wetland vegetation mapping for the Queensland coastline including mangrove communities, saltpans and saline grasslands. Mangrove areas are classified based on the dominant genus (Ageiceras, Avicennia, Ceriops, Bruguiera, Rhizophora).

This dataset was derived from automatic classification of 25m resolution Landsat TM images, colour aerial photography and ground truthing. The resulting data has a positional accuracy of 100 meters and a classification accuracy of approximately 80%.

Additional metadata and access to the data is available on the Queensland Coastal Wetlands Resources Mapping data, eResearch Archive.

This dataset can be viewed in Google Earth using the following online KML with this legend. Due to the large size of the dataset it can not be made available as a downloadable KML. This KML operates live against the e-Atlas server, requesting imagery for just the area you are viewing. If you get close enough (about an eye alt of 10 km) the map will change to show vectors that you can click on to get region classification and area.

  • Malcolm Dunning
Custodian(s)
  • Fisheries Queensland, Department of Employment, Economic Development & Innovation (DEEDI)
Owner Institution(s)

Data currency is noted for each shapefile below:

Gulfwtlds.shp (36 MB, polygons, Datum: GDA94, 1995)

  • NT border to Flinders River - 1995
  • SE Gulf of Carpentaria - 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992

Northernwtlds.shp (11 MB, polygons, Datum: GDA94, 1987-1992)

  • Cape York Peninsula - 1986-88, 1991

Centralwtlds.shp (26 MB, polygons, Datum: GDA94, 1986-)

  • Cape Trib to Bowling Green Bay - 1997-99
  • The Burdekin Region - 1991
  • The Bowen Region - 1994-95
  • The Whitsunday Region - 1997
  • Repulse Bay - 1989
  • Central Qld - 1995, 1997
  • The Curtis Coast Region - 1997

Southernwtlds.shp (4 MB, polygons, Datum: GDA94)

  • Round Hill Head to Tin Can Inlet - 1997
  • Moreton Region - 1995

All four shapefiles contain the same attributes

AREA_M2: Area of the polygon in m²

CLASS:

  • Closed Aegiceras
  • Closed Avicennia
  • Closed Avicennia/Aegiceras
  • Closed Avicennia/Ceriops
  • Closed Bruguiera
  • Closed Ceriops
  • Closed Mixed
  • Closed Rhizophora
  • Closed Rhizophora/Aegiceras
  • Closed Rhizophora/Avicennia
  • Open Avicennia
  • Open Avicennia/Ceriops
  • Open Bruguiera
  • Open Ceriops
  • Saline Grassland
  • Saltpan
  • Samphire-dominated Saltpan
  • Sparse Seagrass
  • Water and Terrestrial
Data Units
Queenland coastline (North:-10, South:-27, East:154, West:138)
Region & Spatial Extent
1987 - 1997
Data Collection
Completed
Maintenance & Update Frequency
QLD_DEEDI_Coastal-wetlands
Dataset Short Name
Maps
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